Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Langford and Stapleford. A follow-on

THE Post-Boy carrying the Cross Post Mail from Warminster to Salisbury, containing the Bags from Bristol, Bath, Frome, Warminster, and Heytesbury, for Salisbury, Winchester, Southampton and Portsmouth, on Friday Night the 21st Instant, was stopt about Eleven o'Clock, between Langford and Stapleford, by a Man on Horseback, who tied the Boy's Hands and Legs, and robbed the Mail by breaking open many of the Bags, and taking out the Contents of various Letters. He also took from the Boy a dun-coloured Gelding, about Fourteen Hands high, with broken Knees, leaving his own Horse behind him, which is a dark Bay or Brown Galloway, Thirteen Hands and a Half high, a small Star in his Forehead, and a neat Saddle and Curb Bridle.

The Person who committed this Robbery is described to be a short thick Man, dressed in a Smock Frock. From his Appearance, Expression and Conduct, he is supposed to be the same Man who robbed the same Mail in June last, near to the Place where this Robbery was committed.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this Robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party, be entitled to the same Reward, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.